[diveinfo] [diverdee@mac.com: Re: Continental baggage embargo]

[Jean-Sebastien Morisset]

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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:55:17 -1000
From: diverdee@mac.com
Reply-To: uw-photo@world.std.com
To: uw-photo@world.std.com
Subject: Re: Continental baggage embargo

Aloha Mike...I had the same problem with Quantas when I went to the Solomons in 2001 (?).  Not only did they REFUSE to take the suitcase, they were extremely RUDE about it.  I will no longer fly Quantas if I can possibly avoid it!  There I was at Honolulu airport, an hour's flight from home at 10pm, with NOTHING open and the man refused my suitcase and walked away.  Finally a skycap took pity on me and found me a plastic bag to put about 10lbs of overage into.  Quite a nasty business, that!  Aloha, Dee
 
On Monday, May 29, 2006, at 02:01PM, Mike Boom <boom@geekworks.net> wrote:

>My wife and I just got back from a trip to Belize. When we flew out 
>from Oakland, we almost received an unpleasant surprise: the 
>Continental Airlines clerk accepting our luggage, which had one 
>overweight bag, checked to see if a baggage embargo was in effect. If 
>it was, we wouldn't be able to take our overweight bag, which 
>contained most of my video equipment. Fortunately it wasn't. But if 
>it had been, we'd have been stuck at the airport with 15 lbs. of 
>excess baggage that we wouldn't have known what to do with.
>
>I'd never heard of a baggage embargo before. It seems that not only 
>have airlines dropped weight allowances from 70 lbs. to 50 lbs. per 
>bag, but they also -- at times -- refuse to carry anything overweight 
>no matter how much you're willing to pay. For details, check this 
>Continental web page that's buried deep in their site:
>
>http://www.continental.com/travel/policies/baggage/embargo.asp
>
>Does anyone know if there are other airlines practicing this rather 
>nasty policy?
>
>Mike Boom


Dee Wescott
http://homepage.,mac.com/hicact/


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